The Coach House

The Coach House is a coach house and stables, now used as an office and store, dating from the late 18th century. It features a Flemish bond brick front with a granite plinth, rusticated quoins, jambstones, piers, arch stones, bands, and cornices, while the rest is made of stone rubble. The building has hipped Delabole dry slate roofs with a cross roof that terminates in a pediment at the front. There is one brick chimney over the cross wall to the right (north).

The plan consists of a central coach house with three bays and accommodation above, flanked by two three-bay stable blocks. There is a circa early 19th-century lean-to at the rear of the coach house and later lean-tos at either end. The structure is in a Palladian style and has two storeys, with lower stables on the left and right that originally included fodder storage partly in the roof space; all areas are over a basement accessed from the lower ground at the rear.

The east front is symmetrical with three bays on each side. The central pedimented coach house, which is slightly set forward, has three elliptical arched openings with projecting keys on the ground floor, a mid-floor band, and a six-pane hornless sash above each door in small granite-keyed brick arched openings. These are topped by a pediment with a moulded granite cornice and a blind oval niche in the middle of the tympanum. Each flanking stable has a central doorway with a sash window on either side. The doorways feature rusticated Gibbs surrounds, with an overlight that has glazing bars on the left-hand doorway and a plain overlight with an original six-panel door on the right-hand doorway. To the left of the right-hand doorway is an original 24-pane hornless sash, while a later 12-pane hornless sash is to the right, and the sashes on the left-hand stables are much later. Shallow brick arches with granite keystones are above the windows.

This is a fine 18th-century coach house and stable range that retains a virtually intact exterior despite its conversion.